[Tango-L] Videos of Dancing at Milongas

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Hi Jay,

That particular milonga is the biggest one for the Tangomagia festival in 
Amsterdam. That place is huge and one of the times when we were there, there 
were almost 1000 people dancing tango! The DJ was El Pajaro and the live 
music was by Color Tango.... Nice, very nice. The level of dancing varied 
quite a bit with enough NYC type dancers to keep you on your toes (pardon 
the pun). Of course, there were hundreds of excellent dancers too. I enjoyed 
myself immensely. Very nice and special occasion.

Personally, I think that many milongas in the US are quite as enjoyable as 
that huge milonga as far as the general level of dancing. The biggest 
difference is one of scale and of course the fabulous venue. Also, the 
Europeans are culturally different from the Americans and that gives those 
events a different flavor. Also, the huge variety of people is very 
interesting. Holland appears to be some kind of tango magnet during these 
events in Amsterdam and El Corte in Nijmegen is also very popular and very 
well attended. They have events practically every week ;-)

Manuel


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>From: Jay Rabe <jayrabe at hotmail.com>
>To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Videos of Dancing at Milongas
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:46:41 +0000
>
>Chris,
>
>      I'm interested in hearing what you see in the milonga videos that is 
>so different between USA and EU. Just curious, but I didn't see anything in 
>the Amsterdam clip that was so different than my experience of milongas in 
>the US, other than maybe the beautiful and spectacular high ceilings and 
>arches in the building.
>
>             J
>             TangoMoments.com
>
>
>
>
> > From: tl2 at chrisjj.com> To: Tango-L at mit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 
>10:55:49 +0100> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Videos of Dancing at Milongas> > 
>Sorin wrote:> > > I enjoy seeing video and pictures from events because 
>they do help> > forming an idea on how the atmosphere is.> > I do too. Only 
>after seeing Miles' recent videos from Denver and Boston was I able to 
>appreciate how different are US festivals (these two, at least) v. 
>European, and to make sense of much of the list comment about the dancing 
>there.> > For the interest of US readers, here's a video of a festival 
>milonga in Amsterdam:> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=raHTZ2jcUKY> > However 
>I don't enjoy the professional filming we sometimes get in milongas... 
>mainly due to the arc lamps, electrical cables snaking across the floor, 
>and camera-bearers obstructing the ronda. Such as seen at the last Paris 
>festival, sadly, where a wandering news crew was conducting impromtu 
>interviews with couples... on the dance floor!> > Since !
>  milongas are going to be filmed regardless, I'd say it is best that this 
>be done by dancers such as Miles, rather than by insensitive outsiders.> > 
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